Conan the Barbarian

Both films in the series and as good a transfer as you're likely to ever find.These don't look like they're in 4K... Because they're not!They are still very entertaining films, with a surprising amount of heart and feeling.

I remember watching this movie at school and completely fell in love with it. They don't make movies like this anymore.

Truly one of the best movies that Arnold made. Add in the rest of the cast and you get an absolute classic!

Classic movie that needs a redub. The movie looks torn from modern video game period settings like God of War or Assassin's Creed Valhalla, but this movie came first... However the audio is just terrible throughout. Leave the sound up for the great Ahhnold quotes though, and if you watch it again for the awesome cinematics, mute it.

Love these movies. Have since I was a kid. We watched the first one yesterday. I simply didn’t realize that it’s really not a good movie! 🤣 but, it’s nostalgic for me and my husband. The second movie has always been better.It looks good on Blu-ray. Quality is good.

Ah, Conan the Barbarian. If you were lucky enough to be alive in the eighties and of an age old enough to go to the movies you may have been lucky enough to see Arnold at the beginning of his movie career and eventual box office dominance of the eighties and early nineties. Let's start with some background. Conan the Barbarian was released in May of 1982 with an estimated budget of 20 million dollars. The director was John Milius with Universal Pictures distributing it and Dino De Laurentiis Company producing. The movie is an adaptation of a character created by Robert E. Howard named Conan back in the 1930's in the days of pulp fiction magazines. These were stories that were published in large number on cheaper grade paper pulp magazines which later became known collectively as pulp fiction. Howard has since become regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery genre. His career as a writer was short lived though as he shot himself in the head at the age of thirty. The movie opens with a black background on which is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." It pretty much follows Conan through the trials and tribulations of going from a little boy through adulthood. The whole movie came about from Ed Pressman a producer who had been looking for a new vehicle for Arnold after his movie Pumping Iron where in which the world got a look into the world of bodybuilding and Arnold's training for the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest. He had a friend Ed Summer also a producer (isn't everybody...) who owned a comic book store and said Conan would be a perfect vehicle and took Pressman over to see the Conan comic books he had, this would've been around 1977. Just so happens Oliver Stone had been working on a script for a Conan movie at the time as he was also a fan of Robert Howard's Conan writings. Stone pitched the idea to Dino De Laurentiis who bought his script and brought in John Milius as the director. Milius took a liking to the Conan character cause he had been into Vikings from early on in his youthful surfboarding days. Milius would bring his surfing friend Gerry Lopez in as Subotai and eventually Sandahl Bergman as Valeria. Ron Cobb designed the look of the sets (he also worked on the sets of Alien) and Basil Poledouris (another friend of Milius) would do the sound track. The thing I like about this movie is that Arnold was still relatively new to acting so he wasn't throwing out the one liners and cracking jokes every other line like he did in Conan the Destroyer. This is definitely the movie that launched his career though and he basically owned the eighties from there on out. For extra features you have: A Deleted Scenes section. Conan unchained: The Making of Conan an excellent video with Ed Pressman on how it all started. Art of Steel: Sword Makers and Masters, this section goes to New Glarus, Wisconsin where the Albion Armorers Company make true reproductions of Conan's father's sword and the Atlantian sword (Jody Samson originally created the Conan swords and worked for Albion) and also has an appearance from Sensei Yamazaki the sword master who trained Arnold and the rest of the cast on the set. Conan: From the Vault, a collection of commentary and videos from back in the day and on the set of the movie. Special Effects, a short minute and a half video of one of the effects shots from the movie. Conan Archives, a collection of animation drawings and stills from the set. A theatrical trailer section and to round out the extra features: Feature Commentary with Director John Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you're a fan of the Jason Momoa version of Conan then you probably won't like Arnold's Conan but just like Shawn Connery was the first Bond, Arnold was, is and always will be CONAN in many peoples hearts.

Good movie

I have gone from liking this movie to loving it over the years. James Earl Jones is a treasure, and there are several times that his speeches give me chills. Early Arnold is campy fun, and the giant snake and human soup also. The costumes and the teenage sensuality are likewise crowd pleasers.With the exception of Jones, there are no great performances, but the power of the movie is in it's characters and ideas. You believe that Jones is ancient, and magic, and crafty. Bergman's passion is credible, and as the hope of new love slowly erodes the cynicism of a life hard lived, it seems familiar. Mako's wizard is wise enough to be a genuine coward. When Schwarzenegger and Lopez argue the virtues of their gods over the campfire, they are not modern people in costumes. They are genuine polytheists, justifying their faith in deities they have never proven and the ideas they stand for, in the words of uneducated and uncivilized men, who are nonetheless capable and confident that they understand how the world works. And Conan's arc, as he grows from abandoned child to would-be hero to a more clear-eyed adulthood, is something you didn't really appreciate in your teens.And the main theme of the movie is more relevant today than ever. The silly story seriously explores the conflict between civilization and barbarity. We never lose sight of the fact that the barbarians are dirty, destructive, and debauched. The decrepit court of the hollowed out King Osric (Max von Sydow RIP) is a pointed comparison, not just to Conan, but to James Earl Jones' Snake Cult.The Snake cult is richer, better organized, more powerful, and more luxurious than any of the kingdoms around. It has better art and architecture, miraculous creatures, and actual magic! But it exists by victimizing its adherents and parasitizing the kingdoms it infests. Its glamour is a skin stretched over its corruption and predation.This movie can be enjoyed without any awareness of its depth, but I urge you to rewatch it and contemplate how the world it imagines is still the world we live in, four decades later.Maybe instead of the Tree of Woe, you could contemplate this on the Couch of Sloth.

すべてのヒーロー好きの方やファンタジー好きの方にお奨めの一本。若き日のシユワが美しくかっこいい。格闘家の船木誠勝氏がこの映画の大フアンであるのは有名である。

No viene en español

El steelbook es precioso, lo mejor sin duda.En cuanto al video el master es el mismo de la edición española, sin novedades.En cambio el audio lleva dos pistas en VO, una DTS-HD de 6 canales con los famosos problemas de la banda sonora corregidos y además la pista mono original en Dolby para los más nostálgicos.

Muy buena. Película imprescindible en cualquier videoteca que se precie. Un clásico imprescindible. Llegó en el tiempo esperado y en perfectas condiciones.

Edición francesa con todo en castellano, menús, idioma, subtitulos.... recomendable 100%. Relación precio/calidad un 10. De lo mejor que hay en cine